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Glucose

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Glucose

Systematic name	Glucose
Chemical formula	C₆H₁₂O₆
Varieties of D-glucose	α-D-glucose β-D-glucose
Molecular mass	180.16g/mol
Density	1.54 g/cm³
Melting point	α-D-glucose: 146°C β-D-glucose: 150°C
CAS number	[921-60-8 (L-glucose)] [50-99-7 (D-glucose)]
SMILES	C(C1C(C(C(C(O1)O)O)O)O)O
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The origin of glucose is Greek (glykys); Glucose means sweet. Another name for Glucose is blood sugar. Glucose is a monosaccharide carbohydrate. Glucose’s chemical equation is C6H12O6; it exists in the fruits and honey. Glucose helps our body function; it is the energy for cellular function and regulates metabolism. Glucose is composed of carbohydrate, which is stored as an important energy in the plant, cellulose as a unit, and glycogen, which is stored in the vertebrate animal.

"Cells use glucose as an energy source, breaking it down through a series of reactions that release stored energy and produce water and carbon dioxide. (Freeman, 46)."

1 Structures of Glucose
2 Usage of Glucose
3 Cellulose
4 Photosynthesis
5 Conclusion
6 Related References
7 Picture Gallery
8 See Also

Structures of Glucose

Alpha and Beta Glucose structure

Alpha Glucose and Beta Glucose

Glucose has lots of structures- the ring structure and straight chain structures. A-D Gluose, and B-D Glucose structures.

A-D Glucose structures

"A-D Glucose has a square aldehyde core in the center called a butalden, butyl aldehyde core. These drawing are copies of the original drawings by the Mendeleev who supervised the distillation of the 24 sugar found in fruits, grasses, seeds and vegetables. Between 1854 and 1898 in Czarist Russia. They found that his form of Glucose was used in our leg muscles, whereas, B-D Glucose seemed to help those who were sedentary and used their hands in writing or typing (Chemistry School)." [1]

B-D Glucose structures

"6 Carbon, 6 Ocsion atom, aldehyde sugar, is called an aldose-hexose saccharide. There are 8 aldose-hexose saccharides each one has a different form and 6 different attributes. They are used in the natural world, to create the different qualities of fruits, beans, grasses, grains, tubers and vegetables (Chemistry School)." [2]

Every Glucose has carbon-sugar. There are two types of Glucose; placement of H and OH decide Alpha Glucose and Beta Glucose. When H is placed above Carbon 1 and OH is placed under Carbon 1, it is Alpha Glucose. Beta Glucose's structure is the opposite from Alpha Glucose; the placement of H and OH. The structure of Alpha Glucose is the ring structure with six Carbon. H and OH are the sixth member for the stable ring structure, so they are making the stale structure for Alpha Glucose and Beta Glucose. [3]

Usage of Glucose

Glucose works important part in the living creatures, such as, cellular function and regulating metabolism. Glucose is used in photosynthesis and it stores the energy. With the light, water, Carbon-dioxide, it synthesis and make up carbohydrate and oxygen: photosynthesis. “We can speculate on the reasons why glucose, and not another monosaccharide such as fructose, is so widely used in evolution/the ecosystem and metabolism. Glucose can form from formaldehyde under abiotic conditions, so it may well have been available to primitive biochemical systems (Wikipedia).” [4] Because Glucose stores the energy, in other words, it provides the fuel to the body. By Glucose, carbohydrate is made up, which is the most important energy to use in our bodies. While we are exercising, we can get the energy with two ways. Using carbohydrate or using fats in our bodies. Using carbohydrate means using Glucose from the blood or using Glycogen, a cluster Glucose, from the muscles. The muscles use Glucose from the blood and store after they changed Glucose to Glycogen form. Carbohydrate from our bodies is Glucose and Glycogen that they are the energy to do exercise or functions in our bodies.

Cellulose

Main Article: Cellulose

Cellulose fiber

Cellulose, C6H10O5, is a complicated carbohydrate with over three thousand of Glucose units. It is the basic structure in the plants’ cell membranes and it is possessed about fifty percent from the plants. (Cellulose exists only in the plants and little bit from the ocean plants.) The animals cannot digest Cellulose, but only the Prokaryotes, bacteria or algae, can digest it. It uses in many ways, such as, the paper and the fabric, and chemically it can transform as the film and the plastic. Cellulose is important material in our lives, because it change forms into the film and the plastic; it is useful economically. “Cellulose is a long-chain polymeric polysaccharide carbohydrate, of beta-glucose (Wikipedia).”[5]

Photosynthesis

Main Article: Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis

The plants get nutrients by themselves by photosynthesis. The photosynthesis is the chloroplasts in the green plants by using the light energy, Carbon-dioxide, water from the roots, and Glucose, synthesis Carbohydrate. (It occurs in plants or algae or bacteria, which has the chloroplasts.) Glucose is part of important component to do photosynthesis. Doing photosynthesis, the plants consume Carbon-dioxide, but make Oxygen, which is useful in our lives. The chemical equation of photosynthesis is:

6 CO2 + 6 H2O + light → C6H12O6 + 6 O2 Carbon Dioxide + Water + Light energy → Glucose + Oxygen

“Photosynthesis occurs in two stages. In the first phase light-dependent reactions or photosynthetic reactions capture the energy of light and use it to make high-energy molecules. During the second phase, the light-independent reactions use the high-energy molecules to capture carbon dioxide and make the precursors of glucose (Wikipedia).”[6]

Conclusion

Glucose, another name of blood sugar, is working important part in organisms (regulating metabolism and celluar function); it is a monosaccharide carbohydrate. Glucose is composed of carbohydrate, which is stored as an important energy in the plant, cellulose as a unit, and glycogen, which is stored in the vertebrate animal. Because Glucose stores the energy, we can find it from muscles easily. It stores the energy; it can find from honey, grape, and fruits.The muscles contain lots of Glucose. A cluster of Glucose is Glycogen. Glucose can find from the blood as its names refers, Glycogen can find from the muscles. The muscles change Glucose into Glygen and store it. We are using Glucose and Glycogen, while our bodies are function, also, moving our body or doing exercise. Glucose is used a lot during exercises: moving the body. Not only storing the enrgy but also it helps photosynthesis and is the basic unit of cellulose. We need Glucose in our lives everyday to keep our bodies’ functions, because Glucose provides the energy to keep the functions. When water Carbon-dioxide, light, and glucose synthesis, it makes carbohydrate and oxygen. Cellulose cannot digest by Eukaryotes, but only Prokaryotes, bacteria and algae, can digest it. Over three thousand of Glucose units made up Cellulose.